After many years of sexual abuse of minors by clerics at the Roman Catholic Church in France, a group of victims announced a report that estimated the number of victims exceeded 210,000. There were a series of calls for a rally to be held and concrete measures to be announced as soon as possible.
In France last month, an independent committee investigating sexual abuse by Catholic church clerics released a report, revealing an estimate of 216,000 victims in the last 70 years. bottom.
In response to this, a group of victims held a rally in the capital Paris on the 6th to ask the church to take immediate measures, and the victims' testimonies were reported.
Among them, a member of the group reported a case of a man who was repeatedly sexually abused by a priest at a summer camp at the age of 11, and accused the church of not taking measures.
On the 5th of this month, the French bishops acknowledged that there was organizational responsibility behind the long-standing damage, but so far no concrete measures have been announced.
A 46-year-old man who attended the rally said, "Victims feel ashamed of being sexually abused, but it is the church that is ashamed. I want to break the silence that has been maintained for many years." I was talking.